“Hence the best service that anybody can render God is diligently to hear and read God's Word.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The church that preaches the gospel in all of its fullness, except as it applies to the great social ills of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When some say that good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Thus the sum and substance of all doctrine is this, that we are not justified by any works, but that faith in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love]. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When God creates faith in a man, that is as great a work as if He created heaven and earth all over… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If you consider this subject unnecessary for Christians, then please quit the field; you and I have nothing in common, for I… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share
He who believes in God is not careful for the morrow, but labors joyfully and with a great heart. "For He giveth His beloved,… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“God made man out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.” — Martin Luther Copy Share
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. — Martin Luther Copy Share
Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“Our faith in Christ does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification… — Martin Luther Copy Share
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of… — Martin Luther Copy Share
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share
“For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. Romans 3:28” — Martin Luther Copy Share
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul… — Martin Luther Copy Share
It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators. — Martin Luther Copy Share
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